单词 | caterer |
释义 | caterern. 1. a. One who caters or purveys provisions for a household, club, etc.; one who supplies the viands at an entertainment, fête, etc.Catourer (1469) is printed in Coll. Ordinances & Regulations Royal Househ. (1790) 97. But the ed. is untrustworthy, and this portion of the MS. is now lost. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [noun] > supplying food or catering > supplier of food or caterer purveyor1340 victualler1377 caterc1400 purveyoressc1400 achatourc1405 acaterc1415 providerc1485 provenderc1530 meatsman1567 caterer1592 proveditor1592 viander1598 foregoer1601 meat-man1614 prog man1618 provedore1631 provisioner1633 meater1643 opsonator1656 sutler1710 1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. F4 v They drawe out a dinner with sallets,..and make Madona Nature their best Caterer. 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 54 The Popes caterer..asked what it was he had to sell. 1630 J. Wadsworth Eng. Spanish Pilgrime (new ed.) iii. 30 Sr. Gerard Kemps brother, who is a Caterer to the Colledge. 1752 S. Johnson Rambler No. 206. ⁋4 The succession of dishes with which their cooks and caterers supply them. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. ix. 135 The marine officer..was the gun-room caterer. 1872 City Press 20 Jan. The Tallow-chandlers' Company dined at the hall..Messrs. —— were the caterers. b. figurative. ΚΠ 1618 R. Brathwait Good Wife sig. E7v Death is wormes-Caterer. 1694 R. South 12 Serm. II. 40 Nature is their Cook, and Necessity their Caterer. 1746–7 J. Hervey Medit. (1818) 143 All nature is our caterer. 1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 371 Grand caterer and dry-nurse of the church. 2. gen. One who caters in any way for the requirements of others. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > supply > [noun] > provider or supplier purveyor1340 supplier1384 purveyoressc1400 providerc1485 suppeditator1542 furnisher1611 subministrator1625 sitarch1656 caterer1706 1706 S. Centlivre Love at Venture i. 4 I like no Caterer in Love's Market. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 46. ⁋2 A Prince is no more to be his own Caterer in his Love, than in his Food. 1877 Manch. Guard. 26 Feb. 7 Caterers for public amusement. 1884 Cassell's Family Mag. Mar. 243/1 The dress caterers have all their plans laid for the summer. Derivatives ˈcaterership n. purveyorship. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [noun] > supplying food or catering > supplier of food or caterer > official or superintendent of food > position of provisorship1623 caterership1830 1830 F. Marryat King's Own II. xx. 325 Why don't you give up the caterership? This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < |
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